Data Recovery using Exiftool

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[Originally posted by dabooch on 2009-04-01 00:56:54-07]

Howdy all, I have used ExifTool before but it was a long time ago and the site that offered me advice has closed due to spamming.  Here's my scenario.  Lost a bunch of pictures.  Recovered them but they had no metadata.  I specifically want the "Date Picture Taken" data as that is how I organize the photos.  There are about 100 and they are now all in the folder "Recovered" and are named "recovered.jpg" , "recovered(1).jpg" etc.   I have tried various CMD lines using ExifTool but I can't seem to get the line that would recover the data for each file in a batch type of command.  I have done it before,  just can't remember.  Anyone have any luck with this type of issue before?  Thanks a million in advance.  Booch

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-04-01 11:15:47-07]

Hi Booch,

I don't know if I can help.  You say the pictures have no metadata.
If this is true, then where do you expect to get the "Date picture taken"
information?

Did you run exiftool on an image to be sure it contains no
metadata?  In windows, just drop an image on "exiftool(-k).exe"
to see what information it contains.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by dabooch on 2009-04-02 00:32:08-07]

Hi Phil,  I guess what I'm saying is that in XP there is no data in the "Date Picture Taken" column but the data is in the picture.  I have to recover that.  Does that make sense?  I know I have done it before.  Almost like it compiled the files.  Thanks muchly.  Greg

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-04-02 11:11:33-07]

Hi Greg,

I'm not sure which tag Windows displays as "Date Picture Taken",
but it is likely either EXIF:DateTimeOriginal or EXIF:CreateDate.
You can try writing these tags from any other date/time tags
that might exist.  If you can't figure it out, paste the output
from "exiftool -a -S -G1" in here (in a

Code:

...

block) and I can be of more help.

- Phil